[Gcl-devel] Compile test

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Regarding the test COMPILE.5 et.al.:

(LET ((CL-TEST::X (COPY-SEQ "abc")))
        (FUNCALL (COMPILE NIL
                          (LIST 'LAMBDA NIL
                                (LIST 'EQ CL-TEST::X CL-TEST::X)))))

If this is to return true, then compile cannot be implemented as a
function.  Is this right?  Otherwise, as a function, all arguments are
evaluated first, so from the function beginning, the form is already 
(LAMBDA () (EQ "abc" "abc")).  This seems pretty radical.

Take care,



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